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- The hukou and traditional virtue: An ethnographic note on Taiwanese policingTheoretical Criminology, Vol. 17, No. 2. (1 May 2013), pp. 261-269, doi:10.1177/1362480612472785This research note suggests that traditional ideals of virtue in Taiwan enable an order-making dynamic to operate in the backstage of state record-keeping processes. These virtues coordinate cooperation by policemen, civilians and politically empowered elites, sim […]Jeffrey Martin
- Legitimate Force in a Particularistic Democracy: Street Police and Outlaw Legislators in the Republic of China on TaiwanLaw Soc Inq (1 March 2013), pp. n/a-n/a, doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2013.01326.xThis article explores a “particularistic” concept of legitimacy important to Taiwanese democracy. This form of legitimacy, I suggest, has been instrumental for Taiwan's successful democratic consolidation in the absence of the rule of law. As evidence, I combine ethnographic ob […]Jeffrey Martin
- From General to Commissioner to General—On the Popular State of Policing in South AfricaLaw Soc Inq (1 June 2013), pp. n/a-n/a, doi:10.1111/lsi.12023Less than two decades after the end of apartheid, South Africa is witnessing a range of policy interventions that almost iconoclastically challenge the premises of democratic governance. Police military ranks have been reintroduced and an exemplary postapartheid law governing the use of lethal forc […]Julia Hornberger
- Performances of Police Legitimacy in Rio's Hyper FavelaLaw Soc Inq (1 June 2013), pp. n/a-n/a, doi:10.1111/lsi.12024Rio de Janeiro is home to over one-thousand favelas (slums), the majority of which are controlled by armed drug traffickers engaged in a long-standing war with police. This article shows how state legitimacy is challenged by the everyday reality of dual power, postcolonial legacies of inequality an […]Erika Larkins
- In Search of Moral Recognition? Policing and Eudaemonic Legitimacy in GhanaLaw Soc Inq (1 June 2013), pp. n/a-n/a, doi:10.1111/lsi.12025Ghana is widely considered as “a beacon of hope for democracy in Africa” (Gyimah-Boadi 2010, 137). Yet substantive democratic transformations of policing have stagnated mainly because the police continue to act as a handmaiden of the state and powerful elites. Consequently, the reliance on performa […]Justice Tankebe
- Cultures of Legitimacy and Postcolonial Policing: Guest Editor IntroductionLaw Soc Inq (1 June 2013), pp. n/a-n/a, doi:10.1111/lsi.12026Beatrice JaureguiBeatrice Jauregui
- Bureaucratic aesthetics: Report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerieAmerican Ethnologist, Vol. 40, No. 2. (1 May 2013), pp. 324-334, doi:10.1111/amet.12024Nigérien gendarmes invest considerable creative energy in their daily paperwork. I explore how the gendarmes conceive of the writing of seemingly purely bureaucratic documents, procès-verbaux, in aesthetic terms. At the same time, I ground the aesthetic appreciation of the […]Mirco Göpfert
- "I Got Here from There": Practicing Anthropology While PolicingPracticing Anthropology, Vol. 34, No. 2. (1 April 2012), pp. 9-12A few years into my policing career in the early 1980s, I decided to pursue a university degree on a part-time basis while working full-time as a police officer. I had no idea what exactly I wanted to study. By this time, however, I was well aware of the duties required of a front-line police r […]Cathy Prowse
- The Emotionality of Participation: Various Modes of Participation in Ethnographic Fieldwork on Private Policing in Durban, South AfricaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 42, No. 2. (1 April 2013), pp. 201-225, doi:10.1177/0891241612452140This article explores methodological issues as a prominent subject in ethnographic fieldwork conducted on a specific group of private security officers, namely, armed response officers, in Durban, South Africa. Through analyzing several experiences f […]Tessa Diphoorn
- Political geographies of the objectPolitical Geography, Vol. 33 (March 2013), pp. 1-10, doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.11.002This paper examines the role of objects in the constitution and exercise of state power, drawing on a close reading of the acclaimed HBO television series The Wire, an unconventional crime drama set and shot in Baltimore, Maryland. While political geography increasingly reco […]Sallie Marston
Special Issue of Anthropology News features two articles on Police
January 2, 2013 by kevinkarpiak Leave a comment
Although there’s been quite a bit of rumbling over the AAA’s “open access” policies over the last several years, one positive development IMHO has been to move the association’s newsletter, Anthropology News, to an online and OA format.
Police propaganda billboard advertising goals for building a “Peaceful and Healthy Society.” This photograph was taken in Taiwan in the early 2000s. Photo courtesy Jeffrey T Martin
And now readers of this blog can benefit. The most recent issue features several articles on the Anthropology of Law in its “In Focus” section, including two articles on the anthropology of policing: one from Anthropoliteia’s own Jeff Martin, entitled “How the Law Matters to the Taiwanese Police” and another by Jennie Simpson, a recent PhD from American University, “Building the Anthropology of Policing” (the latter featuring a short–and unexpected cameo from yours truly).
Personally, I’m super-psyched that the anthropology of policing is beginning to carve out a space in the larger world of anthropology. Not only am I currently brainstorming how to incorporate these blog posts into my course on Policing in Society, but I’m secretly formulating a response to Jeff arguing that his use of my beloved Max Weber is all wrong!
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